For Arachne users with FreeWWWeb accounts here is the straight skinny
about the FreeWWWeb/Juno situation from the FreeNET mail list.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.072000/202020272&ticke
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JUL 20,2000 5:27 PACIFIC 08:27 EASTERN
( BW)(NY-JUNO)(JWEB) Juno Lands Deal For Freewwweb Subscribers; Freewwweb to
Cease Operations,
Refer Its Subscribers to Juno
Business & Technology Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000--Juno Online Services, Inc.
(NASDAQ: JWEB), one of the nation's largest Internet access providers, today
announced that it has received court approval for a subscriber referral
agreement with Smart World Technologies, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary
Freewwweb, LLC, a provider of free Internet access. Under the agreement,
Freewwweb, which filed for bankruptcy last month, will refer its subscribers
to Juno's free Internet access service. Freewwweb will receive compensation
in the form of Juno common stock (as well as smaller amounts in cash, in
certain cases) for each former Freewwweb subscriber who becomes a Juno
subscriber and satisfies certain qualification criteria.
According to its management, Freewwweb had more than 700,000 active
subscribers as of June 2000. As of March 31, 2000, Juno had more than 3
million active subscribers, making Juno the nation's third-largest provider
of dial-up Internet services, after AOL and EarthLink. Earlier this month,
Juno announced a similar subscriber referral agreement with WorldSpy,
another provider of free Internet access that has recently ceased
operations.
Freewwweb subscribers who convert to Juno will be able to continue
receiving e-mail sent to their Freewwweb e-mail address, and will continue
to enjoy completely free Web access. In addition, they will have the option
of upgrading to one of Juno's billable premium services, including its
high-speed broadband service, Juno ExpressSM.
I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 35 years.
This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client
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